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March 30, 2006

Backup and restore

I reported earlier that the hard disk on my desktop machine failed while I was in hospital in January. The bad news is I was remiss in doing proper backups. The good news is I was able to recover a fair amount of data off the drive. However, I'm now having probelms reintegrating the mail messages I've recovered with the current messages on my laptop. The mailbox folder contains in the region of 12,000 messages but Mail is only importing about 200 of them and so far each time I've tried it's imported a different 200. There doesn't appear to be any pattern so it's not a question of just doing the import 60 times. Oh well, I'll find a solution eventually.